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The status of the genus Prayoides (Siphonophora: Prayidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. R. Pugh
P. R. Pugh
Affiliation:
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey, GU8 5UB
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The status of the prayine siphonophore genus Prayoides, monotypic for the species Prayoides intermedia Leloup, 1934, is reviewed in the light of recent collections made by the submersibles ‘Johnson-Sea-Link’ I and II. It is concluded that the genus is not valid, and that the species name should be reduced to that of a junior synonym of a Praya species. The bracts of the two Praya species, P. dubia (Quoy & Gaimard (1833) 1834) and P. reticulata (Bigelow, 1911) are re-described, as in the past there has been much confusion as to their true identity.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 72 , Issue 4 , November 1992 , pp. 895 - 909
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1992

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